The 20th Century has been called the Century of Physics. It could be even more appropriate to call it the Century of Solid State Physics . All the technological

At the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the fu

Focuses on the field of solid-state physics - also referred to as condensed matter physics - which grew to maturity between 1920 and 1960. The history of some e

Introduces students to the key research topics within modern solid state physics with the minimum of mathematics.